Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism.

Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism examines the work of award-winning American novelist and short story writer Richard Ford, and places it firmly in the context of contemporary debates about the role and meaning of literary realism in a postmodern environment. In this fresh study of Ford's oe...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: McGuire, Ian
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Iowa : University of Iowa Press, 2014.
Series:New American canon.
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Summary:Richard Ford and the Ends of Realism examines the work of award-winning American novelist and short story writer Richard Ford, and places it firmly in the context of contemporary debates about the role and meaning of literary realism in a postmodern environment. In this fresh study of Ford's oeuvre, Ian McGuire argues that Ford's work is best understood as a form of pragmatic realism and thus positions him as part of a deeply rooted and ongoing American debate about the nature of realism and pragmatism. This debate, which reaches back to transcendentalist thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson a.
Physical Description:1 online resource (162 pages)
ISBN:9781609383435
1609383435
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.